The animal comes out on black friday!

I have never done the early morning thing on Black Friday before, but there was actually something that interest me at Walmart this year, so I woke up at the butt crack of dawn (3:15 am) and drove down to Walmart. I was expecting to have to stand in line outside for an hour so I wore REALLY warm clothing. When I got there at 3:50 am the parking lot was full and there was no one lined up outside. I freaked out a little thinking that they had opened the doors early so I started running to the store. It turns out that the store was opened but all of the sale item things were being guarded by store employees and people were just allowed to stand around the item that they wanted and wait. I quickly found the display for the item that I was there for and there were about 15 other people around it. Wonderful, I thought! Surely I would get one. But we still had an hour to wait, so we waited and visited. It turns out that the big display was very deceiving and there were only about 25 units available, which would have been fine if everyone only wanted one, but no....they wanted two or three. They were actually claiming their items and saying that these two are mine and this one is yours etc. Wow, I thought, I might not get one. The crazy thing is that I made friends with many of the women and were talking and getting to know one another. The countdown made its way to 4:52 and someone announced that we had eight minutes left....almost there! Then from out of nowhere screams started erupting from in the store, which everyone took as a sign that it was time to SHOP! All of the sudden these nice ladies that I had just met became ANIMALS! I was shoved from behind and landed on the ladies in front of me. People were grabbing things from others and screaming obscenities at each other. I touched like three of the items, but they were quickly ripped from my hands. In my head I was thinking, someone is going to be trampled to death! The item that we were after was only $20 cheaper then normal price and I'm sorry but my life is worth more than $20! So I tried to climb out from under the pile. PHEW! I was dripping with sweat (remember I had dressed extra warm). I did get a few other things that were not so popular and bolted out of there. I'm not sure if I will ever try that again. I was not at all surprised to hear that someone was killed at a Walmart back east....honestly people, a "good deal" isn't really worth someones life! SHEESH!